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In Reply to: RE: what's flowing posted by G Squared on October 08, 2014 at 17:00:12
not making a joke regarding flow or flowingET
Edit: and hitting the "d" key by mistake
Edits: 10/09/14Follow Ups:
nothing really spins in my playback system anymore. I am open to other replacements for "what's spinning."
The difference is that "spinning rust" as inmate Tony Lauck describes the hard drives used in music servers spins at 7200 RPM. :)
Unfortunately, 2 TB SSDs are a bit pricey at present ($7k!)
You don't need that big an SSD if your server pulls stuff off a hard drive into SSD for playback, i.e., adds it the playlist. The servers I have here do that, and the hard drives are off most of the time.
That said, I just saw a 480 GB SSD for $200 and would imagine a 2TB SSD will come down to well under a thousand before too long.
Brian
So much music, so little time!
My arrangement is simpler. I play directly from the library with instant access to any part of it without the need for transferring the data from one drive to another before playback. The server's large memory serves as a solid state buffer.
And don't find any particular value with using an SSD for this purpose since the server is isolated on a different floor quite distant from the music systems it drives.
I do, however, use SSDs in laptops where the faster boot up time and improved battery life do become important factors especially when traveling.
Understood but I prefer to leave the details up to the manufacturer, who gets them right. You heard the W20 in the system. There is nothing quite like it, in my experience. It just works, and extremely well at that. Conservatively and intelligently designed.
Brian
So much music, so little time!
You heard the W20 in the system. There is nothing quite like it, in my experience. It just works, and extremely well at that.
It does and is a cool $17k plug n play box situated in your main listening space.
Perhaps as an IT guy, however, I'd rather isolate a general purpose server elsewhere in the house than go to heroic effort with such a unit in close proximity to the system.
No argument on price, but it is what it is, and the design is based upon exhaustive research, experimentation, and listening, and people buy them. Conversely, they also make the X100L with similar capacities (6, 8, or 12 TB) at much more modest cost. The drives are in the units to maximize sonic performance and are silent, but a NAS can be accessed as well if desired. As for concerns about proximity to the system, those were dealt with in the design process.
Brian
So much music, so little time!
it is loaded from the spinning drive to RAM and played from RAM
pay attention to high resolution streaming services such as TIDAL, who will have a significant presence at RMAF this week.
TIDAL press release (PDF file)
Brian
So much music, so little time!
Signed up a couple days ago! And after a few hours fighting with my Squeezebox and ickStream I got it working.
Love it!
nt
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